I know of a church who updated the Lord's supper to be eating and drinking potato chips and coca-cola instead of bread and wine. What do you reckon? Is it kosher?
Personally I quite enjoy it when the Lord's supper is celebrated as an entire meal. This isn't because I'm a poor student and my favourite word is 'free' but because it feels a lot closer to the original intention.
The Coke thing just seems tacky.
Though a massive fan of both Coke and chips, that just seems too junky and jokey to me. There's something about bread and wine that has a quiet dignity.
ReplyDeleteTacky? It is disgraceful! How is that 'relevant'?
ReplyDeleteI like that we don't have a full meal, because it was having a full meal that caused all the problems in 1 Cor 11. Focusing on the tummy... not remembering Christ...
@ Ben
ReplyDeleteI am also a fan of Coke and chips in almost any other context.
@ Michael
I was trying to be a tad evenhanded in the post but I must admit I also think it's far worse than tacky.
As for focusing on the meal rather than the remembrance, that is the temptation. But no perhaps no worse than the ritual overtaking the meaning.
As I have celebrated the Lord's Supper Meal at my old church it included a time of doing the bread and wine thing, as well as a bible talk around the table reflecting on Jesus as well. I think what I really liked was the fellowship aspect of it. There was still all the same dynamic of individually taking the bread and wine but sitting around tables looking at one another made it feel so much more in community than each coming individually to the front or sitting in pews.
You know what's tacky. Grape juice.
ReplyDeletegrape juice is close to a sin.
ReplyDeletemeals are a ripper way of celebrating - in the past i've done it as a whole church, but more recently with small groups.